Ok, I've prepared http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/attachment/ticket/1918/kqueue.patch which passes all tests (FreeBSD 8.3 p3 i386 / Python 2.7.1) but the ones related to open FDs (which are unrelated to the reactor stuff). This works for me for FreeBSD .. I've tried on MacOSX .. there seem to be PTY issues there. Well. I've also updated the http://pypi.python.org/pypi/txkqreactor/0.2 for anyone who wants to try before this gets eventually merged into Twisted. Von: twisted-python-bounces@twistedmatrix.com [mailto:twisted-python-bounces@twistedmatrix.com] Im Auftrag von Glyph Lefkowitz Gesendet: Sonntag, 6. November 2011 22:13 An: Twisted general discussion Betreff: Re: [Twisted-Python] kqueue reactor / ticket #1918 On Nov 5, 2011, at 1:46 PM, Tobias Oberstein wrote: Then, baseline. I've run the trial using select reactor in the expectation of finding all tests passed. This is not the case, there are a couple of failed ones. Those are also failed with the kqueue reactor, so I need to know whether I need to inspect those or those are problems unrelated to the reactor, but of general (platform?) nature. Are you using Twisted 11? Many of these issues are, if I'm not mistaken, fixed in trunk (though perhaps not all). So trunk is probably a better baseline to work off of. Ok, I'm using trunk now. 1) The errors in twisted.python.test.test_components are gone. 2) The errors in twisted.internet.test.test_posixprocess twisted.internet.test.test_process are still there ... and they show up for select, poll and kqueue reactors. They all somehow relate to "open FDs": twisted.internet.test.test_posixprocess FileDescriptorTests test_expectedFDs ... [FAIL] twisted.internet.test.test_process PTYProcessTestsBuilder_KQueueReactor test_openFileDescriptors ... [ERROR] PTYProcessTestsBuilder_PollReactor test_openFileDescriptors ... [ERROR] PTYProcessTestsBuilder_SelectReactor test_openFileDescriptors ... [ERROR] ProcessTestsBuilder_SelectReactor test_openFileDescriptors ... [ERROR] This might more a FreeBSD related thing. ? Yes. These tests should pass; I am guessing this has something to do with the still-open ticket <http://tm.tl/4747>. Maybe have a look at fixing that? You might be able to work around it on your system this by mounting fdescfs at /dev/fd. (This really ought to be the default, please bother someone in FreeBSD-land to make it so. :)). It would be useful to include tracebacks with the errors. "trial --rterrors" is useful, as it includes the tracebacks especially if you are experiencing hanging with the tests. 3) I think I've nailed down the Half-Close stuff. Awesome. Do you have a link to a changeset for that? (Did I miss it earlier in the thread?) 4) These are kqueue specific. Need to investigate further. These are the ones to focus on for <http://tm.tl/1918>, then :). twisted.internet.test.test_fdset ReactorFDSetTestsBuilder_KQueueReactor test_lostFileDescriptor ... [ERROR] test_removedFromReactor ... [FAIL] The first one comes up, since removeReader() is called for a FD which is gone, and leads to a socket exception from fd = reader.fileno() It sounds like you've narrowed this down pretty far! Good work. 5) These are kqueue specific. Need to investigate further. twisted.conch.test.test_conch The fail on the kqeue control call .. see below. Any ideas what could be the reason? I would suggest fixing the issues you outlined in point 4 first. It's really unfortunate that reactor issues are being caught by conch tests. The reactor tests should be comprehensive enough to catch everything in the reactor. This may just be a side-effect of the other errors you're tracking down, so see if you can fix those, and then loop back to these. If they disappear, then great. If not, then we should have a test that specifically tests this functionality and doesn't rely on weird and difficult to diagnose errors in conch to find them. Thanks again for working on this! -glyph